Hi all,
today I looked into libvncserver/CVE-2019-15681. The VNC situation is
non-optimal in Debian...
The gist (which also applies to Debian) can be found in [1]. Thanks to
Pavel Cheremushkin from Kaspersky for publishing his findings.
I looked at all packages I could think of that are related to VNC and
came up with this list:
x11vnc -> uses system's libvncserver and system's libvncclient, but still
bundles older versions of both in the orig tarball. (See [2]).
NOT AFFECTED
italc -> bundles libvncserver (shame on myself+upstream) and uses it. It
probably needs to be listed for all libvncserver CVEs we have seen
in the past (luckily italc has been removed from unstable recently
and replaced by veyon)
AFFECTED (LOVE NEEDED)
krfb -> ships rfbserver.c from libvncserver, but uses its own
implementation
of an rfbserver rewritten in C++/Qt
NOT AFFECTED
ssvnc -> VNC client only; ships libvncclient code files, probably
affected by
all libvncclient CVEs
NEEDS MORE TRIAGING
veyon -> uses system-wide libvncserver, but still bundles libvncclient
(this will be resolved with veyon 4.3.0, I heard from upstream)
NEEDS MORE TRIAGING
vino -> bundles libvncserver and uses it. It probably needs to
be listed for all libvncserver CVEs we have seen in the past
AFFECTED (LOVE NEEDED)
vncsnapshot -> contains a small subset the libvncclient files
NEEDS MORE TRIAGING
tightvnc -> has copy+pasted code from libvncserver, e.g. rfbserver.(ch)
and also from libvncclient
PARTIALLY AFFECTED (LOVE NEEDED)
tigervnc -> VNC code has been entirely rewritten in C++, not related
to libvncserver / libvncclient (anymore?) as it seems
Please add more packages, if you see fit, that belong to the same
category of packages. Please provide feedback if you think otherwise
on statements I made above.
light+love
Mike
[1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/12/10/5
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/943833
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